Ripoff Reports

Common Questions About Ripoff Report / RipoffReport.com Removal

Have a Ripoff Report on page one of Google and wondering what you should do? We have compiles a nice collection of frequently asked questions with no nonsense answers. With over 10 years of experience helping people with Ripoff Report complaint issues, we have learned a lot about the growing complaint site.

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1. Who owns Ripoff Report?

Author: Veilus 07.06.16

Ripoff Report is a privately owned and operated for-profit website founded by Ed Magedson. The Ripoff Report has been online since December 1998 and is operated by Xcentric Ventures, LLC based in Tempe, Arizona.

Sure you can try to sue anyone you want, the question should be: Is it worth your time and effort to try and sue RipOffReport.com, and do you have a chance at the case being ruled in your favor? Many have tried to sue them and many have failed. They are on the ball and will fight to keep 1 single report on the site purely on principle. Keep in mind there are many very extremely wealthy people and businesses (Paypal, Ebay, Walmart, Target, and more) listed on Ripoff Report and they are still on there!

Ripoff report usually almost always ranks on page 1 for your business name or name if you are listed on this site. There are many technical reasons for this. A few of the factors include the age and authority of the domain Ripoffreport.com, The way the site is coded to be very search engine friendly, the fact the Title, Description, and tags on the report including the context is all about your name. There is also trust flow and how many people link to and talk about ripoff report in the news and social media, this shows Google that the site is popular among internet users.

Another factor is something we call Google's humility algorithm, in other words if there is something negative about your name or company online, Google will rank it high in order to show diversified results. Google wants to show what is interesting to internet users and negative news and complaints are interesting to people.

Ripoff Report ranks high for many other technical factors and these are just a few.

I have heard of people offering 7 figures for the domain name and being turned down. This is gossip and unverified however I am sure the owner Ed Magedson would sell the domain name and website for the right price but this is is Baby and he would most likely sell with a contract that it stays ripoff report and he may still want to be the EDitor?

Simple - Advertising Revenue - PPC Ads - And their "verified safe" program where you can pay them to make you look better on their website. You CAN NOT pay them to remove a complaint about you. Not worth trying and maybe not worth dealing with them at all.

Yes - Almost all RipOff Reports are approved, they do have some recent guidelines that they use to moderate complaints. Making outrageous criminal claims against a person can sometimes be rejected but it is as easy as typing to file your own ripoff report against a business or person.

In 2016 Ripoff Report reached a massive number of over 2,000,000 (That is TWO MILLION) complaints filed. A google search shows that they have about 1 Million pages indexed on Google. This is a huge website!

I would usually jump to the answer and say NO, however there are times when posting a rebuttal is your only option. However be warned that a rebuttal just like the report is never removed and is a permanent addition to the page.

When to post a rebuttal on your ripoff report page

Posting a rebuttal is really not recommended unless you are 100% certain that you have no future plans of trying to push that ripoff report link down search results. Adding a rebuttal is adding content and refreshing a page in the eyes of Google, so the link and report page will or may rank higher or stronger on Google. Also there is the chance that the original author adds more to the page by responding to your rebuttal and then it becomes and active thread/discussion which can lead to more harmful words and also tells Google that the Ripoff Report is interesting to internet users. Adding a rebuttal will make it more visible and more people will see it. Add one at your own risk but if you never plan on getting rid of the report then by all means!